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2FM allowed to play decent music, claim false

“2FM are not allowed to play decent music”
Claim is false
Confidence: High Checked on June 10, 2026

Summary

RTÉ 2FM is an Irish music and entertainment station that regularly airs a wide range of popular and new Irish music, with publicly available playlists and streaming services. There is no evidence of any restriction preventing the station from playing “decent” music; the claim is unsubstantiated.

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en.wikipedia.org
  • RTÉ 2fm - Wikipedia

    The return of Fanning followed the failure by RTÉ 2fm in its attempts to target teenagers, while Larry Gogan also returned to weekday lunch-times. There was comment within the Irish media when, despite electing to target a middle-aged audience, the radio station opted in September 2009 not to playlist David Gray, an English singer-songwriter who was popular with that age group in Ireland. Gray's music was played on Today FM and other stations at the time.

  • RTÉ 2XM - Wikipedia

    Most of the station's first-run ... playlisting. The main exception is the station's long-term flagship show, The Alternative, first broadcast by presenter Dan Hegarty on weekday afternoons on the service, before being relayed on its regular night-time slot on the main 2FM ...

currentaffairs.org
miz.org
open.spotify.com
  • Spotify – RTÉ 2fm

    27 Public Playlists•1,936 Followers•5 Following• · Follow · Show all · 2FM Rising 2025 · 88 Followers · 2FM Rising 2023 · 61 Followers · Choice Music Song of the Year 2022 Shortlist · 40 Followers · 2FM Rising 2022 · 68 Followers · Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2021 ·

  • 2FM Playlist - playlist by RTÉ 2fm | Spotify

    Playlist · RTÉ 2fm · 165 items · 858 saves

soundcloud.com
irishradiolive.com
  • RTÉ 2FM playlist

    On the Playlist page of RTÉ 2FM, you can search previously played songs for 30 days, and you can listen to them again by YouTube. You no longer have to worry about not knowing what songs were playing earlier in your favourite radio.

newyorker.com
  • How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge | The New Yorker

    In 2010, he reviewed “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” by Kanye West, praising the music but declaring that too many of the lyrics concerned “Kanye’s fucked-up social life,” and rating it a “light-to-decent six.” (Fantano’s bespoke system uses both numbers and adjectives.)

thesun.ie
urheberrecht.de
4kfilme.de

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